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[trman]

hi

i am not good at tech...trying to create dvd on my mydvd(straight to disc) but encoding unbelievably slow and cand find solution my self pls help guys...and pls try to tell me little more detailde..
thx

[sknis]

hi

i am not good at tech...trying to create dvd on my mydvd(straight to disc) but encoding unbelievably slow and cand find solution my self pls help guys...and pls try to tell me little more detailde..
thx

Encoding depends on several things related to your computer (CPU speed, video card, etc.) and the condition of your hard drive (free space, fragmentation, etc.) and some computer settings such as virtual memory.  Please post your computer specs.  Have you defragged lately, how about free space.  How much memory and virtual memory do you have?

What application are you using; what other things are running and most importantly, what do you call slow?  It is not unusual for some computers to take overnight to encode a movie.  With a fast computer under reasonably good conditions, it can take 1-3 times the length of the movie.

[gi7omy]

Encoding is a slow process and uses the system RAM, CPU and also the Graphics chip - on my machine it will take just over half the time duration of the original to render (on my last machine it took at least the full duration and that was an Athlon 64 3200). The thing that made this faster was the large Level 2 cache on the CPU and not the fact that it's dual core

I would seriously advise that you do NOT encode straight to disc - if anything happens during the process you will have to start all over again. Far better to encode to an image file on the hard drive and then use that to burn the DVD. One big advantage is that you can burn copies without having to re-encode

[trman]

first of all thx for the comments....i am expecting pretty fast dvd burning when i say fast dont min few min but at least not the lenth of the file...do i have to convert the files to different image or is that something else you mean when you say 'save image to hard disc'?????

like i said i am pretty bad with pc but thx again guys...

[Syrallas]

first of all thx for the comments....i am expecting pretty fast dvd burning when i say fast dont min few min but at least not the lenth of the file...do i have to convert the files to different image or is that something else you mean when you say 'save image to hard disc'?????

like i said i am pretty bad with pc but thx again guys...

Not to be presumptuous and speak on behalf of others with far more knowledge than I, I believe gi7omy/Daithi was referring to, for example, when using MyDVD, when you select burn options, check "burn image to file", rather than actually burning the data onto a  disc.  By burning an image to a file, you get an ".iso" image on your hard drive than can then by used to create discs.  That way all your encoding time is not lost if, for example, you happened to try to burn a project onto a disc that proved to be bad.

When you say you expect the encoding time to "at least not [be] the length of the file", if you mean that if you have an hour production, you believe it must take less than one hour to complete encoding & burning, that's typically not the case.  As sknis/Steve noted, encoding can take up to 3 times the length of your production.

Edited by Syrallas, 17 July 2008 - 04:53 AM.

[gi7omy]

The speed of encoding is all down to your hardware - with a reasonably up to date system with a P4 or Athlon and 2 GB RAM it will take the time duration  of the clip - Celerons and less powerful CPUs (typically laptop systems) can take up to 3 times as long as the time duration.

Higher end systems (lots of RAM, fast CPU with high L2 cache) can take less.

Disc Image is when you select 'burn' you uncheck the box for the DVD drive and select the 'save to file' option below it - that creates a .iso image which, if double clicked should kick in Disc Copier to actually create the DVD

[trman]

thanks to all of you guys...thnk is my laptop have to get better one or homepc...

all the best